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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'dsterba@suse.cz'" <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] string.h: Mark 34 functions with __must_check
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:46:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b133d6f8742472e8a99a76fb0bd3b11@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191010142733.GT2751@twin.jikos.cz>

From: David Sterba
> Sent: 10 October 2019 15:28
...
> > Can we pick a style and enforce it via checkpatch? (It's probably not
> > fun to check for each function attribute in
> > include/linux/compiler_attributes.h).
> 
> Anything that has the return type, attributes and function name on one
> line works for me, but I know that there are other style preferences
> that put function name as the first word on a separate line.

Having the function name first makes it much easier to find the function itself.
In the linux kernel tree searching for 'EXPORT.*function_name' works most f the time.

> My reasons are for better search results, ie.
> 
>   extent_map.c:void __cold extent_map_exit(void)
>   extent_map.h:void __cold extent_map_exit(void);
>   file.c:void __cold btrfs_auto_defrag_exit(void)
>   inode.c:void __cold btrfs_destroy_cachep(void)
>   ordered-data.c:void __cold ordered_data_exit(void)
>   ordered-data.h:void __cold ordered_data_exit(void);
> 
> is better than
> 
>   send.c:__cold
>   super.c:__cold
>   super.c:__cold
>   super.c:__cold
> 
> which I might get to fix eventually.

That is what -A1 in for :-)

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-09 12:14 [PATCH] string.h: Mark 34 functions with __must_check Markus Elfring
2019-10-09 13:26 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-09 13:56   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-09 14:21     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-09 14:30       ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-09 16:31         ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-09 18:45           ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-10  7:20           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-09 16:37   ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-09 16:42   ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-11  5:15   ` Searching for missing variable checks Markus Elfring
2019-10-09 15:09 ` [PATCH] string.h: Mark 34 functions with __must_check Steven Rostedt
2019-10-09 16:13   ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-09 16:27     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-09 16:40       ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-09 17:04         ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-09 17:33           ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-09 18:06             ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-09 16:38     ` [PATCH] " Joe Perches
2019-10-09 17:33       ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-10 14:27         ` David Sterba
2019-10-10 14:34           ` Joe Perches
2019-10-11  5:00             ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-10 15:46           ` David Laight [this message]
2019-10-09 20:06   ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-10  5:29     ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-10-10  7:25       ` Markus Elfring
2019-12-21  9:30 ` Markus Elfring

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